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CROSS CAMPUS Reinventing the Wenzel. In

celebration of Timothy Dwight Master Jeffrey Brenzel’s 60th birthday, several TD students and the TD writing tutor banded together to give Brenzel the gift of a lifetime: an eternal sandwich to be named after him — the “Brenzel,” the modern day counterpart to the iconic Wenzel. The gift was revealed at a Mellon Forum Tuesday as participating students taste-tested four different sandwiches from Town Pizza to determine which one would win the lucky title. Though unconfirmed, early reports suggested that a buffalo chicken sandwich would take home the prize.

BAROQUE OPERA CASTOR ET POLLUX DEBUTS

NEWTOWN

PRESIDENT-ELECT

MEN’S SQUASH

Malloy and Esty have pushed for gun control two months in office

SALOVEY TALKS STUDENT CENTER, NEW COLLEGES

Bulldogs fall to No. 3 Harvard in close match, lose Ivy title hopes

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Admins respond to DOD rumors

ADMISSIONS

City weighed in college searches NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. COLUMBIA

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. HARVARD

ITHACA, N.Y. CORNELL

PROVIDENCE, R.I. BROWN

HANOVER, N.H. DARTMOUTH

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prospective students cannot help but notice: the area surrounding the school itself.

Of eight high school students interviewed, seven said that the location of their future university is a consideration to them, even if it may not be the main factor.

“I would love to be comfortable on [a university’s] campus,” said Anika Kim, a high school junior at Phillips Academy in Andover who is embarking on her college search. “At the same time, a city just offers a lot of opportunities, and I would want to take advantage of both.”

Admissions offices understand the

Following a flurry of media attention concerning a possible military training center at the Yale School of Medicine, the University issued a statement Tuesday afternoon maintaining that the potential program would meet appropriate academic standards but also denying that it has yet been formally proposed.

School of Medicine psychiatry professor Charles Morgan told the News in January that he hopes to propose the creation of a center at the Medical School in cooperation with the U.S. Army Special Operations Forces called the U.S. Special Operations Command Center of Excellence for Operational Neuroscience, which would teach soldiers interview techniques.

Yale’s statement said the School of Medicine has not formally proposed opening the center, and denied media reports that the training facility will teach interrogation tactics and that the research will take advantage of minority populations in New Haven.

Michael Siegel MED ’90, a donor for the Medical School,

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Reborn. The historic Richter’s

bar is slated to reestablish its place in the Elm City’s bar scene and reopen under a new owner. Jason Sobocinski, the current owner of Caseus Fromageria & Bistro, will refurbish the bar and said in a statement that he expects it to be “relaxed, adult, nostalgic and 100 percent New Haven.”

Stripping for science. Before

starting his “Frontiers of Science” lecture on Monday, Columbia professor Emlyn Hughes shocked his students by stripping down to his underwear, hugging his knees in a fetal position and watching as another individual hacked up a stuffed animal with a sword — all in front of a backdrop of 9/11 videos, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. But what do nudity and stuffed animal cruelty have to do with science? Well, according to Hughes, learning quantum mechanics requires you to “strip to your raw, erase all the garbage from your brain and start over again.”

Final call. Today is the last day of the Senior Class Gift campaign, a three-week endeavor that began Jan. 30.

As of yesterday evening, the effort raised $27,525.79 with 90.4 percent participation across the residential colleges, just shy of the record-breaking $31,545.57 raised last year for the Senior Class Gift.

Adam Lanza, the shooter in the Sandy Hook killings,

was reportedly fascinated and possibly inspired by a 2011 massacre at a Norwegian summer camp that left 69 people dead, according to The Hartford Courant. The articles were found in Lanza’s bedroom at his mother’s home in Newtown, Conn., where police also discovered a collection of violent video games.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1992 GESO, the Graduate Employees and Studies Organization, calls off its three-day academic strike after reaching an agreement with the University. The strike — which began over tensions regarding teaching assistant salaries, grievance procedures and library access — ends after GESO leaders approached the union’s members with a proposal from Graduate School Dean Judith Rodin.

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hen applying to college, students look to the city that lies beyond the campus. The Yale Undergraduate Admissions Office faces the challenge of fighting existing stereotypes about New Haven. MONICA DISARE AND AMY WANG report.

Cameras and family members in tow, they flock to campus in crowds, and with every step and every curious glance, they come closer to making a decision about where they would like to spend four years of their lives.

Around this time of year, high school students — mostly juniors — avidly

research potential colleges to apply to, often taking advantage of their spring breaks to visit campuses and soak in each university’s offerings. But no matter how much emphasis their tour guides and promotional materials place on specific university programs and resources, there is one aspect that

Budget planning continues

YCC to author report for Salovey

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER Facing a projected $40-million budget deficit for the coming academic year, faculty and administrators continue to deliberate about how to close the gap.

The 2013-’14 shortfall is significantly smaller than the $350-million gap between costs and operating revenue that Yale faced following the onset of the economic recession in 2008, but Provost Benjamin Polak told the News that Yale has not yet reached a sustainable budget model and continues to draw on reserve funds. Though there will be no “across-the-board” cuts this year, the University must look for ways to reduce expenses permanently, Polak said, adding that he has begun meeting with departments and programs to discuss their budgets and hiring prospects for the coming year.

“There are no scary, across-the-board cuts,” Polak said. “In some sense, my conversations with chairs will be much easier. But they’re going to be tight-ish budgets.”

Departmental budgets will be slightly larger than they were last year to accommodate inflation, salary increases and benefits such as health care, Polak said. But the budgets will not be large enough to enable departments to pursue many desired new initiatives, he said, adding that he has already had to say “no” or at least “not now” to many good ideas since he became provost last month.

While departments will have to make choices to keep costs down, additional savings may come from beyond the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Between 2009 and 2011, Yale’s multiple rounds of budget cuts affected SEE BUDGET PAGE 4

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The planned YCC report will focus on issues of student life, academics and athletics.

BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG STAFF REPORTER Within the next two weeks, the Yale College Council hopes to present a report detailing student opinion on issues concerning academics, student life and athletics to President-elect Peter Salovey to provide him with input from undergraduates before his tenure begins.

The report will give recommendations about 36 topics, including mental health resources, alcohol disciplinary policy and introductory science courses, for Salovey to consider as he prepares for the transition. One YCC member will gather information about each topic from school-wide surveys, student tes-

timonials and personal conversations with students, administrators and professors. YCC Vice President Danny Avraham ’15, who is in charge of compiling the report, said that with the report, the YCC aims to help inform Salovey and other administrators about student concerns so the YCC can better coordinate with the new president’s agenda next fall.

“We are at a unique point in Yale’s history — Salovey’s appointment brings with it the momentum to review a lot of issues and possibly expedite the long processes policy changes at Yale oftentimes take,” Avraham said. “We are hoping to raise many issues now so they will be integrated into the agendas for next

year that are currently being formed by the administration.”

The YCC emailed an initial survey on Feb. 7 asking for student input on the topics covered in the report and YCC members will build on the survey information in their final report, Avraham said. The YCC has already been working on addressing several of the topics included in the survey — such as implementing mixedgender housing and improving the Online Course Information website — though Avraham said the report will still include them to expedite the process of administrative review.

Salovey said that although he had not yet heard of the report, he found SEE YCC REPORT PAGE 5

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For mandatory physical ed T

he Freshman 15 was never a big concern for Aaron Briggs. He was enrolled in a boxing class that met three times a week and discovered that he loved the sport. “I value the release,” he said. “The class was just about showing up. But then I realized how great it was for my stress.”

“Now, it actually helps me get by here,” he added, referring to the additional boxing sessions he’s attended since his freshman fall.

Briggs is, in many ways, a typical Yalie. He’s a sophomore from California, a biology major and a fan of the school’s athletic program. The catch? Briggs doesn’t go here. He’s a student at our fellow Ivy up in Hanover, where students are required to take a year’s worth of physical education classes and complete a 50-yard swim test to graduate.

The unfortunate reality is that Briggs probably wouldn’t have discovered his passion for boxing if he came to Yale. We got rid of our PE requirement over fifty years ago. Most Yalies do not participate in organized sports, and working out is seen as secondary to other things: polishing that literature essay, working at the Af-Am House, writing articles for a political journal, drafting a CIPE fellowship application.

At Yale, we prize academics over almost everything else.

We consider our intellect to be our greatest asset, and rightfully so. We are an academic institution first.

But no one can deny that Yale’s responsibility extends far beyond academics. That is why we live in entryways and residential colleges — so we get to know one another. It’s why the University sponsors many service clubs — so we learn the value of kindness. And it’s why we are required to go to CCE workshops — so we better understand how to communicate.

Our motto of “lux et veritas” is often interpreted narrowly to suggest the search for knowledge, but it has a personal dimension, too. We are supposed to find the “light” in us, not just as contributors to society, but also as human beings. A large part of that mission means learning how to live well — and to live well is to be physically fit.

So my proposal is this: bring back the PE requirement. Mandate students complete two PE credits to graduate. Treat these credits like an additional distributional requirement, but grade them Cr/D/F. And like Dartmouth does, design classes so they span every conceivable interest: speed walking and salsa dancing, Aikido and lumberjacking.

The PE requirement will inevitably add to an already strained budget. But choices reflect priorities. If Yale’s job is

to teach us to both think and live well, its allegiance must be to a truly comp re h e n s ive education.

Other parts GENG the budNGARMBOON- of get will inevitably shrink, ANANT but I’d rather see trims in Imaginary areas.

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But shouldn’t students, you ask, have the freedom to not work out?

YALE NEEDS TO EDUCATE THE STUDENT BODY The short answer is no. Yale forces us to do many things, academic and non-academic. With our distributional requirements, we’re forced to explore different disciplines. By living on campus freshman and sophomore years, we’re forced to interact with other members of our college.

These rules abridge freedom, but enrich the college experience. In Yale’s view, and in my view, these tradeoffs are worth it. There are other schools, like Brown, that place freedom over structure. But when students choose Yale, they choose an institution that already values structure over freedom.

Plus, Yalies need some extra incentive to get healthy. The Freshman 15 might start as a joke, but it too often becomes a reality. In high school, many of us played varsity sports, but in college, few of us exercise regularly. Workouts, for most, are sporadic, and come in bursts and fits and starts. Former athletes become couch potatoes, and in the process, adopt a lifestyle that is objectively bad.

The entire idea behind a PE requirement is to create a program that forces people to overcome the inertia of going to the gym, allowing them to structure regular workout sessions with their friends. We want more people to experience what Briggs did at Dartmouth.

We currently have a sorry state of affairs — and Yale can turn it around. And it must, too, if it truly cares about its students.

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Personal pitfalls I

n my writing seminar last semester, At Home in America, our professor asked each of us to compile a list of what she calls personal pitfalls: mistakes you find yourself repeatedly making in your prose. Intrigued, I began to meander back into each cluster of words, stepping carefully from subject to clause, semicolon to period. Pitfalls suddenly emerged out of nowhere, like those elms in your college courtyard that you just spotted yesterday. Curious how they’d remained invisible throughout two and a half years’ worth of walks to breakfast.

As my list of personal pitfalls grew (for example, #9: Too many prepositional phrases in one sentence), I began collecting a parallel list on stray scraps of paper and the Notes app on my iPhone. This sister list gathered together subtle yet notable blunders I found myself making throughout my day (ex. #5: Known to leave hair on the wall of the shower). Each week I shook both my paragraphs and my daily ploddings through a sieve, sifting out the petty words and irksome shortcomings. The items on my first list slowly piled up: #8: Using adjectives to describe qualities already inherent in the nouns being described (e.g. “tiny

kernels”). #15: Applying multiple metaphors to the same object. #18: Often showing, then still proceeding to tell.

Meanwhile, my second list began to mushroom.

IN THE END, IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MATTER #4: I open Facebook on my iPhone before checking the news … or even (god forbid) my email. #7: I am hypersensitive to chewing noises. I think I suffer from undiagnosed misophonia, a selective sound sensitivity syndrome. #12: I judge people far too quickly, and for far too many things (e.g. if it’s nice out and he’s running on the treadmill, maybe he’s just allergic to sunlight?) I also find myself judging people for habits of which I am regularly guilty (e.g. texting while walking; ice cream before noon). #13: When I see free food (which, at Yale, is frequent), I shovel it into my mouth as though I have no way of knowing the next time Oog will clobber a lame bison

to provide me my week’s worth of calories. #17: On occasion I will talk to a suitemate while I am showering, only to realize when I grab my bathrobe and step out of the stall that he has already left the bathroom. This puts my listening abilities highly into question.

When interrogated cold turkey, it’s difficult to explain what you want to improve in your writing. People will say: I need to be more creative, or I feel like I spend too much time on my essays. Even more difficult, I think, is to see what you want to improve in your day-to-day interactions. When I began my second list of personal pitfalls, I started to pick up on individual foibles that I’d consistently overlooked. It was clear, too, that if I didn’t write these down right as I noticed them, I wouldn’t be capable of recalling them — much less working on them — later.

When I asked a few friends what they considered their own “personal pitfalls,” I encountered a smattering of predictable responses: I procrastinate too much; I’m bad at making decisions; I don’t take enough positive risks. Yalies, I’ve found, can be admirably self-critical, but in our often-grandiose ambitions, we tend to overlook our own nickel-

and-dime defects — punctuality, remembering birthdays, shower etiquette. It’s good to see the big, glaring things. But in assembling my pitfalls, I stumbled upon the potential in improving the minute.

I’ve realized that for me, it is far easier to slowly chip away at specific pitfalls than to take a sledgehammer to the mighty, amorphous self in need of improvement.

At times, it is impossible to not obsess over the big, ponderous things: transcripts, LSAT scores, break-ups, job interviews.

The interrogator from McKinsey, crisply dressed and well coiffed, might not, perhaps, be impressed if I were to claim that I always clean my hair from the shower stall.

So go ahead, obsess about yourself. But do it for yourself — improving your writing not for publication, but for you to know that each time it’s a little bit better. Improve yourself, not for the rewards you receive but for the fact that one day your suitemates will tell their children that you never failed to wipe your hair from the shower stall.

TAO TAO HOLMES is a junior in Branford College. Contact her at taotao.holmes@yale.edu .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T K E L L Y O’DONNELL

The first-generation narrative I

am heartened by recent discussions about class and the experiences of first-generation college students from underprivileged backgrounds in the News. In the online comments and discussions on Facebook walls, this piece has opened up a critical dialogue around an underexplored, uneasy issue. But between you and me, my fellow first-generation college students: it doesn’t get better (to modify Dan Savage’s ubiquitous phrase), at least not entirely.

Sure, you are now wandering the halls of one of the most elite institutions in the world. That institution, moreover, throws a dizzying number of new and exciting opportunities at you each day. You take classes from some of the smartest people in the world.

You eat in college dining halls with the children of doctors and senators, who came here from places like Choate and Buckingham Browne & Nichols. You have made something of yourself. It is exhilarating.

According to social scripts, you are not supposed to be here. But you find solace in narratives about overcoming adversity, as others (or perhaps even you, in personal

GENG NGARMBOONANANT is a sophomore in Silliman College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at wishcha.ngarmboonanant@yale.edu .

statements for internships) try to fit this trajectory into some Horatio Alger mold. Maybe you even take pride in that story, as you should.

What no one tells you, though, is you will always have a slight chip on your shoulder. Even after making the initial transition to a place like Yale, the ghosts of your past will still be there. They will haunt your peripheral vision and taunt you. Your background may have been rendered invisible by now, but its effects linger. Your history at home is vastly different from most of your peers, and it makes you undeniably different. A nagging voice in your head whispers: you’re just a gatecrasher at this country club party.

Even as a graduate student here, I am frequently reminded of this fact. It happens when I least expect it. While preparing for section one afternoon last semester, I read an assigned New York Times article about the cost of health insurance. When the author described the federal poverty line, I had a flashback to a time not long ago. I vividly recalled the day I filled out the FAFSA as a senior in high school, feeling pessimistic about my ability to afford college

even if I got in somewhere. In the space for “Parent’s Total Amount from Worksheet A” I wrote in $9,288 for the year.

HAVING DIFFICULT DISCUSSIONS IS OUR ONLY WAY FORWARD I was the first in my family, a significant percentage of us on welfare, to go to college.

My mother was a single parent, receiving social security checks and food stamps that barely provided for our small family of two.

That FAFSA number was shockingly low and it stung to remember.

I needed a break from my planning for section to walk around the medical library, shedding a few tears and collecting myself.

How, I wondered, could I possibly talk about poverty with my students? I was also terrified in this history of medicine class to talk to my students about other things

— for example, the ways that eugenic sterilization policies targeted the poor. I worried that my voice would break when discussing Carrie Buck.

Despite my fear and discomfort, I tried to push my students to sympathize with historical figures and to attempt to understand lived experiences, as much as possible. This is how I cope, pedagogically and personally, with difficult subjects — by emphasizing empathy. As uncomfortable as it feels sometimes, confronting these issues makes them bearable.

You, pullers of bootstraps, will go on to do great things. I am proud of the things that I have done myself, including getting into a Ph.D. program here. At times, though, it is difficult and lonely. I applaud the authors of the recent News article and opinion column for broaching such a vexing topic. It is by beginning such conversations and speaking openly about class, in addition to other identity categories, that we can truly overcome our backgrounds and our baggage.

KELLY O’DONNELL is a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences .

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n this past State of the Union, President Obama called for an “AIDS-free generation.”

Indeed, the United States is taking some great steps in fighting the global burden of disease.

The appointment of John Kerry as the Secretary of State signifies one such paradigm shift, demonstrating the Obama administration’s increased focus on international relief. The appointment of Mark Dybul as the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria also indicates the substantial efforts taken by the U.S. to control these issues. However, this positivity is slowly being replaced by growing concern. In light of the current budget crisis, are Secretary Kerry, President Obama and Congress slowly deprioritizing our commitment to combat HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria?

Of late, there’s s a rising concern that the U.S is attempting to wash its hands of the cycle of dependence it has created. Abandoning global health initiatives would follow a disturbing trend — a trend in which the United States abandons the projects abroad they once deemed noble

and necessary, much like forest conservation, environmentalism and Middle East diplomacy.

Sequestration would slash almost half a million dollars from one of the United States’ most successful and popular bipartisan initiatives: the President’s Plan for Emergency AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Currently, PEPFAR pays for anti-retroviral treatment for over three million HIV positive people worldwide. When PEPFAR loses funds, people lose access to lifesaving medication. According to the American Foundation for AIDS Research, cuts to PEPFAR would lead to over 60,000 additional AIDS-related deaths in just one year.

Cutting PEPFAR would not impact the deficit severely; in fact, it would result in a mere 0.63 percent of the total $109 billion required in deficit reduction for the fiscal year. I see no reason to reduce PEPFAR except for the sake of exploitative politics.

Although reducing PEPFAR spending does not really benefit the U.S., it has still been proposed. Clearly economics is not the driver of decisions — politics

is the smelly fish to blame. Wherever the pressure to cut PEPFAR is coming from, it fails to comprehend the political economy of global disease. However, politics has never been deeply receptive.

Although there is a deeply ethical and humanitarian reason to focus greater efforts towards the Global Health Initiative (the umbrella organization that funds PEPFAR), there are more practical and utilitarian reasons to support the initiative, too. The GHI is probably the only interventionist endeavor that has actually been welcomed by other countries. It aims to increase the selfsufficiency of countries receiving aid by 2014 through supporting training more than 140,000 new health care workers. Cutting the funding to PEPFAR signals the beginning of a dismal end to an initiative in which the U.S. already has invested millions.

Nothing about cutting global health funding is sustainable. Do we need more people protesting outside U.S. embassies? Is that the image that a (debatably declining) superpower wishes to project — one that is slowly turning away from one of the only initiatives that is truly effective?

Will John Kerry fix this problem? Kerry was a driving force behind the establishment of the PEPFAR and the Global Fund (another GHI program), and stressed the importance of bilateral and multilateral efforts toward tackling global health issues. Even the global health activists, a picky lot, really appreciate him.

CUTTING PEPFAR ISN'T THE ANSWER But I am concerned that Kerry will be just another Obama.

Despite Obama’s vocal support for eradicating global health problems, numbers and facts disagree. While many newspapers, global health groups and relief organizations see Kerry as a Mr. Fix-it — a hero to save the apocalyptic fate of global health funding — I am still skeptical. History tells me to wait and watch.

DIVYA BALAJI is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at divya.balaji@yale.edu .

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“Each time I learn the news I react not as a president, but as anyone else would — as a parent. And that was especially true today” BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES

Salovey outlines Capitol terms defined by Newtown vision for future

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER Davenport College students had the chance to fire questions about online education, a student center and the future of the residential colleges at President-elect Peter Salovey at a Davenport Master’s Tea on Tuesday afternoon.

Salovey, a Davenport fellow, spoke in the college’s common room to roughly 30 students, faculty and staff affiliated with Davenport. He opened the floor for questions and comments on ways he could best improve the University following brief opening statements about his vision for a more open, innovative, accessible and excellent Yale — goals he has repeated since the Yale Corporation announced his presidency on Nov. 9.

“The idea is, in whatever you do, whether its psychology or engineering, pick ways in which Yale can do it more excellently,” Salovey said.

A number of questions focused on University finances, and Salovey addressed topics such as a potential student center, the two new residential colleges and ways in which alumni can donate money.

Salovey said he was open to student suggestions about building a student center, but that the idea had two potential problems — it could “suck the life out of the residential colleges” if students used it too much or residential college life could be so strong that no one would go there.

“It’s a little ironic,” Salovey added. “We’re in a time that people would love to see a student center, having just spent all that money on the residential college [renovations].”

Salovey proposed several other ways in which he could further unify the University, including integrating the two new residential colleges if the University raises the necessary funding for their construction.

He explained that the new Center for Engineering Innovation and Design was intentionally placed near the site of the two new colleges and he mentioned the possibility of opening a University theater in

close proximity to the new colleges to further spread facilities across campus.

“There’s three towers on the new campus — two of them are almost as tall as Harkness tower — so you will be able to see the new colleges anywhere on campus,” Salovey added.

“Psychologically, I think that’s important.”

Additionally, Salovey said problems concerning a divide between athletes and nonathletes on campus stem from a lack of contact between the two groups of students, adding that the division could be fixed by encouraging athletes to live in the residential colleges and urging non-athletes to support Yale teams.

Salovey also said he maintains a commitment to improving courses in the STEM departments by revamping the science programs’ introductory requirements, which are typically taught in large lecture formats. “[Introductory science courses] are taught in big numbers, in crummy spaces, and are not always taught by the most gifted faculty,” Salovey said.

The solution involves smaller class sizes, more hands-on learning and cutting-edge technology, Salovey said. He also said administrators have created a committee to work on a report about academics in STEM field, leading to improvements in those areas. The biology and physics departments, he added, are separately working on ways to improve their introductory tracks.

Zaina Zayyad ’14, a neurobiology major who asked Salovey about STEM introductory classes, said she was happy to hear the University is making sciences a priority. ”I really hope we’ll be able to see the effects of Yale’s improvements in the sciences that President-elect Salovey mentioned we would,” she added.

Salovey will assume the presidency on June 30.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

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In the aftermath of the tragedy in Newtown, both Rep. Elizabeth Esty and Sen. Chris Murphy have forcefully pushed for new gun control legislation.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER When Chris Murphy ran for office last November, he campaigned on a platform largely comprised of economic planks: promoting American manufacturing, simplifying the tax code and investing in transportation, among others. But as he conducts business on Capitol Hill as the freshman Connecticut senator, the December shooting in Newtown, Conn., weighs heavily on his term and Murphy himself, providing both direction and difficulty.

“The Newtown shooting changed everything,” Murphy said in a Tuesday email to the News. “I don’t think anybody who’s talked to the families of those children, or the survivors, or the first responders there that day wasn’t fundamentally changed by it.”

The shooting in their home state has left its mark on the terms of Murphy and U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85, the two new members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation. Since arriving in Washington less than two months ago, they have assumed a central role in the gun control debate. Murphy in particular has displayed an outspokenness unusual for the Senate, where newcomers often stay quiet for months. Their continued push for new gun laws articulates the reshaped political landscape that envelops Connecticut’s seven-member congressional delegation, for whom Connecticut’s moniker of the “land of steady habits” has been replaced by the memory of tragedy.

BEFORE AND AFTER NEWTOWN

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At a Tuesday Master’s Tea, President-elect Salovey elaborated on plans for a more unified, open, innovative, accessible and excellent Yale.

Despite dozens of mass shootings across the country, no significant legislative pushes have emerged since the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, which expired in 2004. In 2007, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe expressed the prevailing political sentiment when he warned Democratic candidates that gun

control was a “third rail loser,” suggesting that it was too controversial to even discuss.

Candidates nationwide displayed their hesitation to discuss gun violence during the 2012 election, in which the issue played little to no role. On the six 2012 campaign websites of Connecticut’s current congressional delegation, for instance, not a single instance of the word “gun” can be found.

What happened almost two months ago … was a terrible tragedy. What happens now is up to us.

ELIZABETH ESTY LAW ’85 U.S. representative, Connecticut After the November election, Murphy emerged victorious without a clear definition of the issues on which he would later seek to distinguish himself, but appeared focused on job creation and the economy, as did Etsy.

Yet just over a month after their victories, the trajectory of Murphy and Esty’s terms shifted drastically as the two, before even arriving in Washington, took up the mantle of new gun regulation.

“My Senate career will be much different because of this episode,” Murphy told the Associated Press in an interview four days after the shooting.

“I’m going to judge myself as a senator by whether or not I’ve worked every hour and every day to make something good happen from these kids’ deaths.”

He added that there was a “common commitment amongst the Connecticut delegation to be leaders on a renewed national conversation to end this horrific gun violence.”

Esty, who spent 10 to 14 hours a day in Newtown — which is a part of her district — in the days after the shooting, reiterated this sentiment. Less than a week after the shooting, which

she described as a “watershed moment,” Esty began calling on lawmakers to pass gun reforms.

Since Newtown, Murphy, along with Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has become one of the leading advocates of new gun laws. The three introduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 in late January, which would ban assault weapons in addition to magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds.

“If assault weapons and high capacity magazines were not so readily available, including the weapon Adam Lanza used to take 26 lives last month, there would be more little boys and girls alive in Newtown today,” Murphy said in a January statement about the bill.

Esty has also taken a forceful stance on the issue in response to the “resounding call” she has heard from residents of her district. As a member of the Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, she has played an instrumental role in developing the group’s call for a federal assault weapons ban and universal background checks.

POLITICAL REALITIES

Murphy and Esty’s efforts have been tempered by political realities. Proponents of an assault weapons ban have conceded that passage of a ban would be “tough,” as Blumenthal told the News last month, particularly as any major legislation will only become more difficult to pass as public furor fades.

Even President Barack Obama, in his recent State of the Union address, opted instead to insist simply on a vote rather than on a ban itself.

While not forgoing an assault weapons ban, Murphy and others have shifted their attention to universal background checks and a ban on high capacity magazines, where Murphy acknowledged there is more consensus. According to a Quinnipiac poll earlier this month, 92 percent of voters support universal background checks on gun purchases, and Arizona Repub-

lican Sen. John McCain said on “Meet the Press” that a bipartisan group of senators is currently working on a bill to institute them.

The National Rifle Association forcefully opposes any new regulation, arguing that proponents of new gun laws do not respect Second Amendment rights. Murphy especially has been the subject of fierce NRA criticism.

Citing lawmakers’ fears of the NRA’s influence, Murphy has sought to discredit the organization through three studies released jointly with the Mayors Against Illegal Guns organization that claim that perceptions of the NRA’s influence outweigh reality, the organization is beholden to gun manufacturers and its own membership does not support many of its policies.The NRA strongly disputed the reports.

“Chris Murphy just wanted to get his name in the news,” NRA spokeswoman Jacqueline Otto said. “He didn’t do any research himself.”

On Thursday, Murphy, Esty and Blumenthal will host a conference on gun violence at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, where Vice President Joe Biden, who has led the White House’s push for new legislation, will deliver the keynote address. Murphy said in a Monday press call that the conference would not be a debate on gun control, but instead a forum for those working on new legislation.

The conference will come one day after Esty hosts a town hall in Waterbury to discuss the recommendations of the Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

“What happened almost two months ago in Newtown was an unimaginable tragedy,” Esty said in a statement earlier this month. “What happens now is up to us.”

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

Graduate artists showcase thesis work

BY JOSEPHINE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER On Friday, the School of Art’s Green Hall was abuzz with activity as painting and printmaking majors celebrated the debut of their thesis work.

The show, which featured the work of 11 of the 23 painting and printmaking majors in the school’s 2013 graduating class, is the first of a series of thesis shows to go on view this semester. Students had been making the work

for the show — ranging from 10-foot paintings of Benjamin Franklin to miniature pamphlets that visitors could take home with them — since mid-December.

While the style and subject of the works varied from artist to artist, many were playful and reflected the artists’ personal stories.

“A lot of us have a constant dialogue with each other,” Kathyrn Gegenheimer ART ’13 said.

Sadie Wechsler ART ’13 said the exhibit seemed more playful than last year’s thesis show, noting the

use of color and humor in several pieces. Meena Hasan ART ’13 said many members of her exhibit group created more image-based pieces than abstract or installation-based works — a trend she thinks is unique to her art school class. Hasan’s own work deals with skin and how people relate to surfaces. Her images project an endless state of potentiality — they all depict actions about to take place, from opening to separating to awakening.

She added that many pieces

also deal with autobiographical narrative. Tammy Nguyen’s ART ’13 work addresses the problems many people have with relating to their ancestry. She said she thought about how people deal with stories passed down by family members through fantasy and imagination, and used those approaches in her work.

“Everyone in the school gets close to what’s internally urgent,” Nguyen said.

Thesis shows like these present the graduating class with their

main chance to formally present the year’s work to the public, Mark Gibson ART ’13 explained.

The shows also offer students the opportunity to see what their classmates have been working on and to exhibit with their entire class, he added.

Samuel Messer, associate dean of the School of Art, said thesis shows provide students with a chance to reflect. By scheduling the shows months before the end of the year, students get a chance to see the show “not as an ending

but as a beginning,” he added.

“The whole point of being in school, with thesis shows or with anything else, is about clarifying your project, clarifying your work habit, clarifying what you’ve been doing,” Gibson said.

Part Two of the Thesis show, which features the work of the 12 other painting and printmaking majors, will run from Feb. 23 to 28.

Contact JOSEPHINE MASSEY at josephine.massey@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“All I have left is to pay the fine that I incurred for committing a ‘hate crime’ against what the city is now claiming is a Jewish tree.”

LIZ LEMON “30 ROCK” CHARACTER

Departmental budgets remain tight BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 both academic and non-academic units of the University.

In a series of three meetings this fall, the University Budget Committee examined Yale’s facilities as a possible source of savings, Polak said.

The committee found that the University could save significant funds if it could create more “swing spaces” on campus for use during construction projects, Polak said. He added that the University currently has to pay extra to rush projects during the summer and could reduce expenses if projects were able to progress at a slower pace.

Departments will also not be able to hire as many new professors as they may like next year, Polak said. During the recession, the number of tenured and tenure-track professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was capped at 700. Though professors continued to leave and retire at normal levels, new hiring slowed to a trickle, and many departments struggled under the strain of smaller faculties.

Hiring levels have now returned to normal, but almost all of the authorized searches for new faculty underway this year are to fill existing or impending vacancies rather than new positions, Deputy Provost Lloyd Suttle told the News

last fall.

“Departments really want to hire,” Polak said. “There’s kind of this pent-up demand.”

Departments really want to hire. There’s kind of this pent-up demand.

BENJAMIN POLAK Provost, Yale University Polak said requests for hiring are currently examined on a caseby-case basis, but added that the

system for allocating teaching positions between departments is flawed. He said he hopes the Academic Review Committee, a group of faculty members that started examining the distribution of teaching slots across departments in fall 2012, will recommend a new allocation system soon. The new system will ideally create a pool of teaching slots that can be methodically allocated to the departments most in need of them, he said.

Vice President for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King told the News in January that she has “no doubt Yale will balance its budget for 2014.”

The size of the budget is determined in part by the “smoothing

rule,” which keeps spending from the endowment relatively consistent on an annual basis despite fluctuations in investment performance. Yale’s endowment posted a subdued 4.7 percent return on its investment for the most recent fiscal year.

“The smoothing rule is very important,” Polak said. “Without it, we’d be hiring and firing as the market changed.”

Keeping spending in line with the smoothing rule helps maintain a sustainable financial model that will keep Yale’s finances strong for future generations, King wrote in an October financial report.

Eight department chairs contacted for this story did not

respond to requests for comment. Inderpal Grewal, chair of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, and Holly Rushmeier, chair of the Computer Science Department, said they have not met with Polak yet to discuss their departments’ budgets.

Still, Rushmeier said she hopes the budget will enable the Computer Science Department to increase course offerings and support for “computer sciencerelated student activities.”

University operating expenses totaled $2.8 billion in 2011-’12.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .

Prospective applicants consider Yale, New Haven CAMPUSES FROM PAGE 1 importance of a school’s location and market it accordingly in their promotional materials. But for some universities, the task poses more of a challenge than it does for others.

NOT BOSTON OR NEW YORK

Within the first 20 pages of Columbia University’s 115-page viewbook, the school references its urban setting several times, presents a detailed map of its location and calls New York City a “living laboratory” for students.

“Our New York,” the viewbook reads, “is a neighborhood, a classroom … a testing ground … a home, a friend, an indispensable resource.”

Other selective universities boast about their locations in similar ways. Harvard University emphasizes its proximity to Boston, Stanford points to the short distance between Palo Alto and San Francisco, and the University of Chicago describes itself as having “a water park bigger than Belgium in its front yard.” UChicago also promotes its “Chicago studies” program, an academic curriculum crafted around its city.

New Haven, on the other hand, appears on page 88 of the Yale admissions viewbook sent to prospective Yale students — and the tone is different. The four pages in the 123-page book that focus on New Haven feature a quote from the New York Times, descriptions of restaurants and attractions in the Elm City and a picture of a student running through East Rock.

Then, the viewbook switches back to promoting the University itself.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said schools such as Columbia and Harvard present their locations differently than Yale does because they are able to rely on students’ pre-existing assumptions about the cities.

“Probably the quantity of coverage we give [to our city] is not dissimilar to the quantity of coverage that others give theirs,”

Brenzel said. “But they have more of an ability to rely on preexisting impressions, whereas we have to be more specific.”

The pre-existing impressions of New Haven, unlike those of Boston or New York, are not always favorable.

“When people think of Yale and its neighborhood — to be really frank about it, the image of New Haven is not really a positive one. It’s known for its high crime rate,” said Sung Woo Hong, a high school senior at Andover.

However, Brenzel said that concerns about crime do not usually come to the Admissions Office and are unfounded. When prospective families ask about safety around campus, Brenzel said staff members usually direct inquiries to Yale’s public safety website, which offers a comprehensive report of crime statistics. The site includes a comparison of Yale’s crime metrics measured against peer institutions, indicating with graphs and charts that Yale has fewer incidents of crime.

When students visit and go to school here they’re often surprised that New Haven itself is a vibrant cosmopolitan.

JEFFREY BRENZEL Dean of Undergraduate Admissions “The perception of crime in New Haven is currently running about 15 to 20 years behind,” Brenzel said. “In terms of trying to address that perception, it can easily come across as defensive, when there’s nothing to be defensive about.”

Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93, Yale’s deputy chief communications officer, also dismissed the characterization that New Haven is crime-ridden and unsafe.

“For years and years reporters have asked these questions,” Morand said. “Any misperceptions are lingering because they

are perpetuated by reporters.”

Most students interviewed were aware of New Haven’s negative stereotype. Lauren McIsaac, a senior at Avon High School in Connecticut who applied to Yale, said that in her high school class, New Haven is discussed frequently in a way that does not leave the “best impression” of the city.

To counter negative impressions, the Admissions Office added a poster of New Haven attractions to its admitted students mailings two years ago.

Brenzel added that while there is no specific committee within the Admissions Office to promote New Haven, the hundreds of pages of printed materials — including information on New Haven — are continually being looked at and revised.

AN UNDISCOVERED CITY

Admissions officers at Yale have a twofold challenge when marketing New Haven to incoming students: They must fight New Haven’s existing stereotype while also promoting a city most students know little about.

“Even though I live in Connecticut, I don’t know as much about New Haven as I do about Philadelphia or New York,” McIssac said. “I haven’t really explored much about it.”

Another prospective student, Arthur Erlendsson, a senior at Hawken High School, said he was not concerned about New Haven crime because Yale is “actually quite isolated.”

Erlendsson added that the leaders of the information session at the University of Pennsylvania talked frequently about job opportunities and internships in Philadelphia, while at Yale, he was told that the city was relatively safe and diverse.

Brenzel said that once students visit New Haven, their opinion of the city changes.

“When students visit and go to school here they’re often surprised that New Haven itself is a vibrant cosmopolitan and interesting place. As college towns go, New Haven’s pretty cool,” Brenzel said.

For some, the size of New

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Yale admissions officers encourage applicants to learn more about New Haven.

Haven is a positive factor. “It’s not too crazy for me,” Erin Kaminski, a senior at Avon High School said. “I wouldn’t like too much excitement like in New York City.”

Hong, the Andover senior, emphasized that he has personally visited New Haven and did not consider it to be a “dangerous place, especially if you only stay on campus.” The city’s reputation seems exaggerated, he said, and in his personal college search, he did not consider the location of the school to be a particularly important factor.

CAMPUS OVER CITY?

Indeed, most high school students seem to give much more consideration to the campus itself than the city in which the school is located. Several students said they would attend Yale no matter how the conditions were in the city of New Haven, because, according to one student, “after all, it’s still Yale.”

David Mele, a high school senior at the Collegiate School

in New York, said he would have chosen Yale if it were located anywhere. The only aspect of the city he considered was its size, he said, and New Haven suited his interests as an urban city that was neither too large or too small.

Brenzel said that while the Admissions Office is aware of the popularity of large metropolitan cities for prospective students, the actual impact of those locations on students is fairly small.

“We do understand that it can be an apparent attraction for a school to present itself as being adjacent to Boston, New York City or Chicago,” Brenzel said. “Those urban resources are attractive to many people. But what we know is that students and families are often surprised at how little time [students] spend going off campus to those cities.”

According to the Admissions Office’s survey examinations, Brenzel said, prospective students tend not to consider the exact location of the college in their primary consideration of

the school. Even so, he said the office makes an effort to “present information that we can’t count on them knowing” about New Haven, including details about the city’s artistic community and high level of community service engagement with the University.

Although Morand praised New Haven, he cited Yale’s residential college experience, teaching, research and international opportunities as more important than the city’s surrounding area for prospective students.

“We try to convey that there’s more in New Haven than you might think,” Brenzel said. “It’s a city you can get your arms around, a walkable city. In my experience, students at most campuses — particularly universities of our size and nature — would not have as many opportunities in their local communities as students here.”

Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .

Contact AMY WANG at amy.wang@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Proposal stirs controversy DOD CENTER FROM PAGE 1 criticized the center in an open letter to Medical School Dean Robert Alpern on Monday morning, arguing that the center will violate the mission of the School of Medicine by fulfilling military objectives, and the letter grabbed the attention of the national media.

“In short, the center, if established, would be designed in the best traditions of Yale research and scholarship,” the Office of Public Affairs and Communications said in the release. “Public reports stating otherwise are premature and based on speculation and incomplete information.”

Morgan would direct the proposed center, using a $1.8-million grant from the Department of Defense. The center would ultimately function to teach Army soldiers interviewing techniques Morgan developed, he said in January.

Morgan also told the News in January that the Yale Office of Grant and Contract Administration is working with the Psychiatry Department to finish paperwork securing the grant funding, which was delayed due to both congressional budget issues and the need for more time to work out funding for administrative expenses. Morgan declined to comment for this article.

“No matter what I say, it doesn’t seem to quell rumors,” Morgan added.

Alpern told the News that the public would normally not know about ideas at the phase of development before a formal proposal but exposure from a Jan. 7 New Yorker Magazine article profiling a possible instructor for the center, theatrical pickpocket Apollo Robbins, exposed the plan to national attention.

It’s more of a symbolic gesture to put pressure on the University.

MICHAEL SPIEGEL MED ’90

Siegel said he sent the open letter to Alpern after learning about the proposed center on Monday, and he followed up with a second letter after speaking with Morgan Tuesday morning. He will stop donating to the Medical School, he said, because the proposed center’s goal of furthering military objectives contradicts the Medical School’s mission to improve health and further medical research. In addition, Siegel described the center as unethical because it will allow soldiers to practice interview techniques on New Haven immigrants — information that Siegel said he found in the Yale Herald.

But the statement declares that the interviewing techniques envi-

sioned for the center are both central to the psychiatry discipline and part of medical student and resident education. According to the University, interviewees will be volunteers from diverse ethnic groups and will be protected by oversight from Yale’s Human Research Protection Program.

Alpern said he finds the center to be ethical because it will help the armed forces by building on research from within the Medical School.

Siegel said his donations to the Medical School “don’t amount to a lot of money.” His intentions, he added, were not to use wealth to make a point, but to show the School of Medicine that alumni may feel alienated by the decision to open the center.

The proposed center has also incited an online petition, titled “Don’t Open a Department of Defense Training Center at Yale,” criticizing the University for housing the center. As of press time, the petition had 396 signatures.

University President Richard Levin declined to comment about the center beyond the statement OPAC released.

The proposed U.S. Special Operations Command Center of Excellence for Operational Neuroscience would break the year into trimesters, teaching up to 20 soldiers per session.

“You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary.” REP. STEPHEN LYNCH D-MASS.

YCC to compile proposals for Salovey

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

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President-elect Peter Salovey said that although he had not yet heard of the report, he found YCC data gathered during the presidential search to be helpful.

YCC REPORT FROM PAGE 1 YCC data gathered during the presidential search to be helpful, adding that he would “very much look forward” to similar efforts.

He said he hopes the student input outlined in the report will correspond with the goals he plans to address during his presidency.

“Anything students can provide that would help us address my themes of a more unified Yale, innovative Yale, accessible Yale and excellent Yale would be helpful,” Salovey said.

I think [the survey] is a good step, but I don’t think it was extensive enough.

SOPHIA CLEMENTI ’14

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Some have criticized the center, claiming that soldiers would practice interview techniques on local immigrants.

So far, Avraham said, 1,700 people responded to the survey and over 200 students submitted responses in the “additional comments” section. On Sunday, the YCC members responsible for each topic presented an outline of their findings to the entire Council, which then voted to approve all the preliminary recommendations about the topics. Members are now in the process of conducting additional research and writing their final reports.

Josh Barrett ’15, the topic leader for pre-

med advising and minors, said in an email to the News that he plans to consult with Dean of Academic Affairs Mark Schenker to incorporate an administrative perspective in his section of the report.

Andrew Sobotka ’15, the topic leader for athletics, said he relied on firsthand experiences from members of the athletic community to form the direction and content of his portion of the report.

Seven of nine students interviewed said they had only vaguely heard of the report and had not completed the survey. Five students said they hoped the survey and report would include more specific topics than the ones outlined in the YCC’s email.

“I think it is a good step, but I don’t think it was extensive enough,” Sophia Clementi ’14 said. “I don’t know how helpful it will be if there aren’t more specific questions. I understand they probably did not want to make it too long so that many people take it, but if we are talking about a future president of Yale I would rather him have more information.”

Clementi added that she thought the YCC’s survey focused too much on academics and financial aid and she thinks there should have been a greater number of questions about campus climate in light of Yale’s changing alcohol policy.

The YCC will hold an open forum with President-elect Salovey on Feb. 25.

Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

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ARTS & CULTURE

“In life, as in art, some endings are bittersweet. … Looks like this opera might just have a second act. Let’s hope it’s not a tragedy.” GOSSIP GIRL “GOSSIP GIRL” CHARACTER

Undergraduate opera breaks new ground with ‘Castor et Pollux’

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BY ANYA GRENIER AND SARAH SWONG STAFF REPORTERS Nearly 70 Yale College students will come together this week to resurrect a show last performed in America before most of them were born.

The French baroque opera “Castor et Pollux” is a unique collaboration between the Opera Theater of Yale College and the Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company. OTYC Managing Director Ashby Cogan ’14 and “Castor’s” Musical Director Beau Gabriel ’14 said they hope that the production will serve to “raise the profile” of undergraduate opera on campus by showcasing the talent and opportunities available.

“[Gabriel] always had this ‘take no prisoners’ vision for it,” Cogan said.

“We have a lot of talented students and a lot of push from the administration to do bigger things.”

The group chose to do JeanPhilippe Rameau’s opera in its less commonly performed 1737 original version, which includes a prologue celebrating the end of the then contemporary War of Polish Succession.

Gabriel said the show’s “epic proportions” allowed the group to involve as much of Yale College as possible.

“There’s no two people it’s revolving around that everyone else is just supporting,” Gabriel said. “The chorus is just as beautiful and important as the principals, as the dancers.”

Gabriel said Associate Dean of the Arts Susan Cahan voiced the administration’s willingness to provide financial support for a more ambitious endeavor. In the past, OTYC productions have received administrative support but have typically involved fewer members and about a third of “Castor’s” budget, Cogan said, adding that most shows have been accompanied by no more than a piano, Cogan said.

While the show applied for a Creative and Performing Arts award, Cogan said the bulk of its budget — which with the rental of the Co-Op space, exceeds that of a Dramat mainstage — was paid for by the Arts Discretionary Fund. The team booked

the Co-Op Theater because Yale does not have a performance space with an orchestra pit, and putting the orchestra onstage greatly limits a production’s possibilities, she explained.

Baroque is an ornate 17th-century musical style that served as a foundation of modern Western classical forms like the sonata and the concerto, as well as major and minor tonality and continuous bass-line harmony. An advantage to choosing an earlier, baroque opera is that the “lighter” style of music makes it easier for college students whose voices are not yet fully developed to put on a full-length production, Cogan said.

She explained that after 1800, the orchestration became increasingly

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lush, requiring singers to be much louder to cut through it.

Sarah Norvell ’15, who will sing the role of Phébé, said the French style of operatic dialogue — “recitative” — is far more structured than the English or Italian, changing meter often to accommodate the natural accentuation of the French language, which makes it more difficult to sing.

“You have to be stricter with yourself,” Norvell said.

“Castor et Pollux” is a tragédie en musique, a genre of French opera that uses plots from classical mythology or Italian romantic epics to celebrate the monarchy. It recounts the tragedy of twin brothers Castor and Pollux. Pollux, who is immortal, must

travel to the Underworld to bring his dead brother Castor back to life. He undertakes the journey to fulfill the wishes of Castor’s lover princess Telaira, with whom Pollux himself is also in love.

“Pollux is being pulled between his emotions and his reason,” Stage Director Lara Panah-Izadi ’14 said.

“The value of reason, and the Enlightenment, are important in this period in France.”

Panah-Izadi explained that “Castor et Pollux” lies at the transition between the traditional baroque style and more modern forms of opera. The plot breaks from the limiting theater tradition of classical “unities,” which mandate that a story take place in one

location, in the span of a day and with only one main plotline. “Castor,” for instance, takes place in several locations, including a funeral ceremony, Jupiter’s temple, the Underworld, the Elysian Fields and Sparta.

By supplying the string instrument players with baroque bows, Gabriel said the production nodded to the recent trend of “period performance” of baroque music in which orchestras use instruments authentic to the time period. The production also borrowed a harpsichord from the School of Music, which Gabriel said is so fragile that it needs tuning every hour.

Cogan said modern opera and baroque music share a similar style of singing, adding that since mod-

ern audiences have only rediscovered baroque music in recent years, productions have more artistic liberty to cut and paste musical parts.

“There’s this newness to it. [Some opera] is so tired, it’s been beaten to death,” Cogan said. “This is the next frontier of opera, its something that hasn’t been touched in hundreds of years.”

Cogan added that Yale especially is “a mecca” for baroque music scholarship and production as the home of the Yale Baroque Opera Project, though “Castor” is not associated with that initiative.

Lea Winter ’15, a ballerina in the production, said the choreography is challenging for dancers used to per-

forming only with other dancers. The emphasis on vocal expression in opera and body language in dance allow all the performers to bring their expertise to the production, she explained.

Winter added that “Castor” provides an important performance opportunity for the ballet company, which began as an outlet for dance performance only two years ago.

“Castor et Pollux” will run at the Co-Op Theater this Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .

Contact SARAH SWONG at sarah.swong@yale.edu .

Exhibit envisions art outside of ‘White Cube’

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New Haven’s “A Tribute to Langston Hughes” — an eclectic multimedia showcase that self-consciously uses different media — features works by local artists Renaldo Davidson, Nick Martin and Anthony Thompson.

BY VIRGIL BLANC CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the spirit of Langston Hughes, artists who work with media from video to pastel to performance have come together to celebrate Black History Month.

At the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery on Audobon Street, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s “A Tribute to Langston Hughes” displays pastel works by Renaldo Davidson. On Feb. 22, video artist Nick Martin and performance artist Anthony Thompson will present their work alongside the permanent exhibition, which will run until March 22, under the direction of Katro Storm. The one-time multimedia showcase will feature edited interviews of

Davidson presenting his pieces and Thompson reading selected poems by Hughes and performing a solo adaptation of Hughes’ “Tales of Simple.”

Storm explained that the range of media present in the exhibit evokes Hughes’ ability to create partnerships with artists of various genres and media.

“This is what Langston would have wanted,” Storm said. “Initially, we wanted to have the video and performance happening continually in the gallery because they are part of the exhibition.”

The artists all have an intimate relation to Hughes’ works and ideals. For instance, Hughes was very keen on the idea of simplicity — an idea reflected in Thompson’s work. Thompson explained

that Hughes wanted his work to be understood by everyone, independent of educational or economic background.

“With very few props, ‘Adeagbo’ (Anthony) can create a whole universe on stage,” Storm said.

As Davidson described his artwork, he referred to Hughes as his “muse.” Davidson’s work, simple-looking pastels on print paper, explores many of Hughes’ favorite themes, such as jazz music and African-American history. His figures are sometimes caricatures, and his characters’ facial expressions convey emotions that range from deep sorrow to exploding joy. One pastel represents four young AfricanAmerican girls who died in an explosion, in which they appear

well dressed and smiling.

“It would have been too easy to represent the violence. This pastel is more of a tomb for them,” Davidson said.

Another of Davidson’s works is what he calls a “remix” of a photo of two African-American Yale students raising their gloved fists in protest during a football game in 1968.

“I only thought of Yale as an Ivy school before,” Davidson said.

“I didn’t even know there were African-American students at Yale in the 60s and 70s.”

Storm said that the exhibition was “perfect for New Haven” because of the city’s vibrant African-American community.

He added that people often forget that black history is always related to black culture and com-

munity, and he wanted to bring a community of artists together around the exhibit. Renaldo’s work centers around community as well: He appended a series of his pastels on Michael Jackson so that the public could sign the works.

“That way,” said Renaldo, “the community is creating the art with me.”

Storm explained that the exhibit is interesting because unlike many African-American history exhibits, it showcases artists who are less well known yet still active in the community.

“When you see exhibitions on African-American history, you always see the usual suspects, Malcolm X and MLK. I wanted to do something different, something I was interested in,” Storm

said.

Thompson has centered his work on Langston Hughes for a long time. He directed one of Hughes’ plays, “Black Nativity,” and for the past four years has been performing as Hughes’ character Jesse B. Simple in multiple venues in New York, including arts festivals and universities, as well as libraries and churches.

“These are the people that Hughes was writing for, and these are the people I want to perform for,” Thompson said.

In 1926, Carter Woodson, Langston Hughes’ mentor and close friend, created Black History Week, later expanded into Black History Month.

Contact VIRGIL BLANC at virgil.blanc@yale.edu .

KATHRYN CRANDALL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

A new exhibit at the Art and Architecture Gallery in Rudolph Hall examines the architecture of museums and spaces of presentation that complement the art they house and that meld with the surrounding landscape.

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER The days of bland gallery spaces may soon be over.

In an exhibit titled “White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes,” curator Raymund Ryan ARC ’87 presents six innovative architectural projects across the globe that challenge traditional notions of displaying art. The exhibition, which opened at the Art and Architecture Gallery in Rudolph Hall last Thursday, examines museums whose architectural designs not only complement the artwork they house but also meld with the surrounding outdoor landscape. With works ranging from a restored botanical gar-

den in Mexico to an art site in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea, “White Cube, Green Maze” demonstrates the ability of architectural space to provide dynamic canvases for art both new and old.

“The line is blurred between the inside and the outside to form a synergistic whole,” said Brian Butterfield ARC ’11, director of exhibitions at the Yale School of Architecture.

School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern said the featured sites open a door to a new world of display methods. The exhibit’s concept is derived from an essay called “Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space,” written by art critic Brian O’Doherty.

O’Doherty objected to the trend of museums moving toward the model of the “reductionist white cube,” which he felt removed a necessary context from viewers’ experience of artwork, Stern said.

Butterfield said the exhibit is not making an argument about how art should be displayed, but rather attempting to blur the distinctions between works of art and the museum spaces that contain them. While none of the structures conform to a specific typology, Butterfield pointed out that they share a common goal of integrating into existing landscapes.

At a public discussion about the exhibit last Friday, architecture professor Kurt Forster

lauded the building projects for reviving sites that would have otherwise been left abandoned. He cited Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park as an example, because it stands on the site of a former petroleum transfer facility. “[The exhibit is] not maintaining the naïve illusion that nature is there to kiss you, but rather that it’s been ransacked and destroyed,” Forster said.

The Brazilian Instituto Inhotim was a neglected farmstead before landscape architect Roberto Marx transformed the fields into a sprawling, 5,000acre art center. Meanwhile, the Grand Traiano Art Complex used features from the existing site in Grottaferrata, Italy

to create an urban environment unifying new building materials with the original landscape.

At the panel discussion, Yale University Art Gallery Director Jock Reynolds questioned whether structures so closely aligned with the natural environment could be sustainable.

“Nature works on a different time scale,” Forster responded.

“That makes upkeep less threatening, perhaps, because there isn’t the concern with keeping everything painstakingly maintained.”

Ryan, the curator, suggested that the structures’ impermanence adds to their appeal, creating a surreal art experience for the viewer.

Two visitors to the exhibit

from New York said they appreciated the photos accompanying each display. Taken by renowned photographer Iwan Baan, the pictures give equal attention to the architectural fixtures and their surrounding landscape.

Bernadette Marian of Massachusetts said the variety of media made the exhibit engaging, praising its “combination of blueprints, photography and sculpture.”

“White Cube, Green Maze” was originally exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art from September 2012 to this January.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

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ARTS & CULTURE

“In life, as in art, some endings are bittersweet. … Looks like this opera might just have a second act. Let’s hope it’s not a tragedy.” GOSSIP GIRL “GOSSIP GIRL” CHARACTER

Undergraduate opera breaks new ground with ‘Castor et Pollux’

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BY ANYA GRENIER AND SARAH SWONG STAFF REPORTERS Nearly 70 Yale College students will come together this week to resurrect a show last performed in America before most of them were born.

The French baroque opera “Castor et Pollux” is a unique collaboration between the Opera Theater of Yale College and the Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company. OTYC Managing Director Ashby Cogan ’14 and “Castor’s” Musical Director Beau Gabriel ’14 said they hope that the production will serve to “raise the profile” of undergraduate opera on campus by showcasing the talent and opportunities available.

“[Gabriel] always had this ‘take no prisoners’ vision for it,” Cogan said.

“We have a lot of talented students and a lot of push from the administration to do bigger things.”

The group chose to do JeanPhilippe Rameau’s opera in its less commonly performed 1737 original version, which includes a prologue celebrating the end of the then contemporary War of Polish Succession.

Gabriel said the show’s “epic proportions” allowed the group to involve as much of Yale College as possible.

“There’s no two people it’s revolving around that everyone else is just supporting,” Gabriel said. “The chorus is just as beautiful and important as the principals, as the dancers.”

Gabriel said Associate Dean of the Arts Susan Cahan voiced the administration’s willingness to provide financial support for a more ambitious endeavor. In the past, OTYC productions have received administrative support but have typically involved fewer members and about a third of “Castor’s” budget, Cogan said, adding that most shows have been accompanied by no more than a piano, Cogan said.

While the show applied for a Creative and Performing Arts award, Cogan said the bulk of its budget — which with the rental of the Co-Op space, exceeds that of a Dramat mainstage — was paid for by the Arts Discretionary Fund. The team booked

the Co-Op Theater because Yale does not have a performance space with an orchestra pit, and putting the orchestra onstage greatly limits a production’s possibilities, she explained.

Baroque is an ornate 17th-century musical style that served as a foundation of modern Western classical forms like the sonata and the concerto, as well as major and minor tonality and continuous bass-line harmony. An advantage to choosing an earlier, baroque opera is that the “lighter” style of music makes it easier for college students whose voices are not yet fully developed to put on a full-length production, Cogan said.

She explained that after 1800, the orchestration became increasingly

Multimedia artists present ‘tribute’ to Hughes

lush, requiring singers to be much louder to cut through it.

Sarah Norvell ’15, who will sing the role of Phébé, said the French style of operatic dialogue — “recitative” — is far more structured than the English or Italian, changing meter often to accommodate the natural accentuation of the French language, which makes it more difficult to sing.

“You have to be stricter with yourself,” Norvell said.

“Castor et Pollux” is a tragédie en musique, a genre of French opera that uses plots from classical mythology or Italian romantic epics to celebrate the monarchy. It recounts the tragedy of twin brothers Castor and Pollux. Pollux, who is immortal, must

travel to the Underworld to bring his dead brother Castor back to life. He undertakes the journey to fulfill the wishes of Castor’s lover princess Telaira, with whom Pollux himself is also in love.

“Pollux is being pulled between his emotions and his reason,” Stage Director Lara Panah-Izadi ’14 said.

“The value of reason, and the Enlightenment, are important in this period in France.”

Panah-Izadi explained that “Castor et Pollux” lies at the transition between the traditional baroque style and more modern forms of opera. The plot breaks from the limiting theater tradition of classical “unities,” which mandate that a story take place in one

location, in the span of a day and with only one main plotline. “Castor,” for instance, takes place in several locations, including a funeral ceremony, Jupiter’s temple, the Underworld, the Elysian Fields and Sparta.

By supplying the string instrument players with baroque bows, Gabriel said the production nodded to the recent trend of “period performance” of baroque music in which orchestras use instruments authentic to the time period. The production also borrowed a harpsichord from the School of Music, which Gabriel said is so fragile that it needs tuning every hour.

Cogan said modern opera and baroque music share a similar style of singing, adding that since mod-

ern audiences have only rediscovered baroque music in recent years, productions have more artistic liberty to cut and paste musical parts.

“There’s this newness to it. [Some opera] is so tired, it’s been beaten to death,” Cogan said. “This is the next frontier of opera, its something that hasn’t been touched in hundreds of years.”

Cogan added that Yale especially is “a mecca” for baroque music scholarship and production as the home of the Yale Baroque Opera Project, though “Castor” is not associated with that initiative.

Lea Winter ’15, a ballerina in the production, said the choreography is challenging for dancers used to per-

forming only with other dancers. The emphasis on vocal expression in opera and body language in dance allow all the performers to bring their expertise to the production, she explained.

Winter added that “Castor” provides an important performance opportunity for the ballet company, which began as an outlet for dance performance only two years ago.

“Castor et Pollux” will run at the Co-Op Theater this Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .

Contact SARAH SWONG at sarah.swong@yale.edu .

Exhibit envisions art outside of ‘White Cube’

NJ MARTIN

New Haven’s “A Tribute to Langston Hughes” — an eclectic multimedia showcase that self-consciously uses different media — features works by local artists Renaldo Davidson, Nick Martin and Anthony Thompson.

BY VIRGIL BLANC CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the spirit of Langston Hughes, artists who work with media from video to pastel to performance have come together to celebrate Black History Month.

At the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery on Audobon Street, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s “A Tribute to Langston Hughes” displays pastel works by Renaldo Davidson. On Feb. 22, video artist Nick Martin and performance artist Anthony Thompson will present their work alongside the permanent exhibition, which will run until March 22, under the direction of Katro Storm. The one-time multimedia showcase will feature edited interviews of

Davidson presenting his pieces and Thompson reading selected poems by Hughes and performing a solo adaptation of Hughes’ “Tales of Simple.”

Storm explained that the range of media present in the exhibit evokes Hughes’ ability to create partnerships with artists of various genres and media.

“This is what Langston would have wanted,” Storm said. “Initially, we wanted to have the video and performance happening continually in the gallery because they are part of the exhibition.”

The artists all have an intimate relation to Hughes’ works and ideals. For instance, Hughes was very keen on the idea of simplicity — an idea reflected in Thompson’s work. Thompson explained

that Hughes wanted his work to be understood by everyone, independent of educational or economic background.

“With very few props, ‘Adeagbo’ (Anthony) can create a whole universe on stage,” Storm said.

As Davidson described his artwork, he referred to Hughes as his “muse.” Davidson’s work, simple-looking pastels on print paper, explores many of Hughes’ favorite themes, such as jazz music and African-American history. His figures are sometimes caricatures, and his characters’ facial expressions convey emotions that range from deep sorrow to exploding joy. One pastel represents four young AfricanAmerican girls who died in an explosion, in which they appear

well dressed and smiling.

“It would have been too easy to represent the violence. This pastel is more of a tomb for them,” Davidson said.

Another of Davidson’s works is what he calls a “remix” of a photo of two African-American Yale students raising their gloved fists in protest during a football game in 1968.

“I only thought of Yale as an Ivy school before,” Davidson said.

“I didn’t even know there were African-American students at Yale in the 60s and 70s.”

Storm said that the exhibition was “perfect for New Haven” because of the city’s vibrant African-American community.

He added that people often forget that black history is always related to black culture and com-

munity, and he wanted to bring a community of artists together around the exhibit. Renaldo’s work centers around community as well: He appended a series of his pastels on Michael Jackson so that the public could sign the works.

“That way,” said Renaldo, “the community is creating the art with me.”

Storm explained that the exhibit is interesting because unlike many African-American history exhibits, it showcases artists who are less well known yet still active in the community.

“When you see exhibitions on African-American history, you always see the usual suspects, Malcolm X and MLK. I wanted to do something different, something I was interested in,” Storm

said.

Thompson has centered his work on Langston Hughes for a long time. He directed one of Hughes’ plays, “Black Nativity,” and for the past four years has been performing as Hughes’ character Jesse B. Simple in multiple venues in New York, including arts festivals and universities, as well as libraries and churches.

“These are the people that Hughes was writing for, and these are the people I want to perform for,” Thompson said.

In 1926, Carter Woodson, Langston Hughes’ mentor and close friend, created Black History Week, later expanded into Black History Month.

Contact VIRGIL BLANC at virgil.blanc@yale.edu .

KATHRYN CRANDALL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

A new exhibit at the Art and Architecture Gallery in Rudolph Hall examines the architecture of museums and spaces of presentation that complement the art they house and that meld with the surrounding landscape.

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER The days of bland gallery spaces may soon be over.

In an exhibit titled “White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes,” curator Raymund Ryan ARC ’87 presents six innovative architectural projects across the globe that challenge traditional notions of displaying art. The exhibition, which opened at the Art and Architecture Gallery in Rudolph Hall last Thursday, examines museums whose architectural designs not only complement the artwork they house but also meld with the surrounding outdoor landscape. With works ranging from a restored botanical gar-

den in Mexico to an art site in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea, “White Cube, Green Maze” demonstrates the ability of architectural space to provide dynamic canvases for art both new and old.

“The line is blurred between the inside and the outside to form a synergistic whole,” said Brian Butterfield ARC ’11, director of exhibitions at the Yale School of Architecture.

School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern said the featured sites open a door to a new world of display methods. The exhibit’s concept is derived from an essay called “Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space,” written by art critic Brian O’Doherty.

O’Doherty objected to the trend of museums moving toward the model of the “reductionist white cube,” which he felt removed a necessary context from viewers’ experience of artwork, Stern said.

Butterfield said the exhibit is not making an argument about how art should be displayed, but rather attempting to blur the distinctions between works of art and the museum spaces that contain them. While none of the structures conform to a specific typology, Butterfield pointed out that they share a common goal of integrating into existing landscapes.

At a public discussion about the exhibit last Friday, architecture professor Kurt Forster

lauded the building projects for reviving sites that would have otherwise been left abandoned. He cited Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park as an example, because it stands on the site of a former petroleum transfer facility. “[The exhibit is] not maintaining the naïve illusion that nature is there to kiss you, but rather that it’s been ransacked and destroyed,” Forster said.

The Brazilian Instituto Inhotim was a neglected farmstead before landscape architect Roberto Marx transformed the fields into a sprawling, 5,000acre art center. Meanwhile, the Grand Traiano Art Complex used features from the existing site in Grottaferrata, Italy

to create an urban environment unifying new building materials with the original landscape.

At the panel discussion, Yale University Art Gallery Director Jock Reynolds questioned whether structures so closely aligned with the natural environment could be sustainable.

“Nature works on a different time scale,” Forster responded.

“That makes upkeep less threatening, perhaps, because there isn’t the concern with keeping everything painstakingly maintained.”

Ryan, the curator, suggested that the structures’ impermanence adds to their appeal, creating a surreal art experience for the viewer.

Two visitors to the exhibit

from New York said they appreciated the photos accompanying each display. Taken by renowned photographer Iwan Baan, the pictures give equal attention to the architectural fixtures and their surrounding landscape.

Bernadette Marian of Massachusetts said the variety of media made the exhibit engaging, praising its “combination of blueprints, photography and sculpture.”

“White Cube, Green Maze” was originally exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art from September 2012 to this January.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

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BY ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATED PRESS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cyberattacks that stole information from 141 targets in the U.S. and other countries have been traced to the Chinese military in this building, housing “Unit 61398” of the People’s Liberation Army, on the outskirts of Shanghai.

BY LOLITA C. BALDOR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — As public evidence mounts that the Chinese military is responsible for stealing massive amounts of U.S. government data and corporate trade secrets, the Obama administration is eyeing fines and other trade actions it may take against Beijing or any other country guilty of cyberespionage.

According to officials familiar with the plans, the White House will lay out a new report Wednesday that suggests initial, more-aggressive steps the U.S. would take in response to what top authorities say has been an unrelenting campaign of cyberstealing linked to the Chinese government. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized

to speak publicly about the threatened action.

The White House plans come after a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm released a torrent of details Monday that tied a secret Chinese military unit in Shanghai to years of cyberattacks against U.S. companies. After analyzing breaches that compromised more than 140 companies, Mandiant has concluded that they can be linked to the People’s Liberation Army’s Unit 61398.

Military experts believe the unit is part of the People’s Liberation Army’s cyber-command, which is under the direct authority of the General Staff Department, China’s version of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As such, its activities would be likely to be authorized at the highest levels of China’s military.

The release of Mandiant’s report,

complete with details on three of the alleged hackers and photographs of one of the military unit’s buildings in Shanghai, makes public what U.S. authorities have said less publicly for years. But it also increases the pressure on the U.S. to take more forceful action against the Chinese for what experts say has been years of systematic espionage.

“If the Chinese government flew planes into our airspace, our planes would escort them away. If it happened two, three or four times, the president would be on the phone and there would be threats of retaliation,” said former FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry. “This is happening thousands of times a day.

There needs to be some definition of where the red line is and what the repercussions would be.”

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is looking for a new candidate to lead American and allied forces in Europe after his first choice, Marine Gen. John Allen, bowed out Tuesday and announced his intention to retire for what he called personal reasons.

The move further clouds the picture for Obama as he repositions key figures on his national security team and in key military leadership roles. The White House is fighting for Senate confirmation of Chuck Hagel as defense secretary; a confirmation vote was stalled last week

by Republicans but is expected to happen next week.

Obama also is switching commanders at Central Command, which is responsible for U.S. military operations throughout the greater Middle East, and Africa Command.

After meeting with Allen at the White House, the president issued a brief statement praising Allen’s service. He called the 57-year-old Allen “one of America’s finest military leaders, a true patriot, and a man I have come to respect greatly.”

Allen appeared to be a shoo-in as the next top commander of allied forces

in Europe. Obama nominated him last Oct. 10, but in November, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stunned many by announcing that Allen was being investigated for potentially inappropriate email exchanges with a Florida socialite, Jill Kelley. Panetta put Allen’s nomination on hold.

Last month, shortly before Allen completed a 19-month tour as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced that Allen had been cleared of any wrongdoing and the White House said it was prepared to re-nominate him for the Europe job.

Even so, it was not clear that Allen would choose to go ahead with a Senate confirmation hearing, given the nature of the email probe.

Allen is held in high regard by Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee, which would have voted on his appointment, and he was expected to win full Senate confirmation. It came as no surprise to many on Capitol Hill when Allen was cleared of wrongdoing in the email probe, which several lawmakers had indicated was not as troublesome as some had initially suggested. The actual emails between Allen and Kelley were never made public.

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U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, center, the top commander of U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan, salutes during a ceremony marking the 11th anniversary of 9/11.

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TODAY’S FORECAST

TOMORROW

Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. Calm wind becoming south between 15 and 18 mph.

FRIDAY

High of 36, low of 26.

High of 41, low of 35.

ANTIMALS BY ALEX SODI

ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 5:30 PM “Buddhist Nuns in Late Choson Korea” Hyangsoon Yi, assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Georgia, will argue that nuns continued their monastic life in this period despite anti-Buddhist policy. She will present three sets of counterevidence to the popular image of the “invisible” nun. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Room 217A. 9:00 PM Senior Class Gift Closing Event This is a celebratory event for seniors to come together, and also one last chance for people to donate to the Senior Class Gift campaign, which officialy ends Wednesday at midnight. Anyone who has donated to the SCG campaign will receive one free drink. Briq Restaurant (266 College St.).

SCIENCE HILL BY SPENCER KATZ

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21 5:30 PM “Performance, Sound and Furies: A Performance of Die Ursonate and Other Lautgedichten” Contemporary poet Christian Bök of Calgary University performs Dada sound poems

by Kurt Schwitters and other early 20th century modernists along with his own poetry. Free and open to the general public. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

9:15 PM “Cinderella: The Story of the Stepmonster” The show tells the true story behind the tale that we have all come to know. It will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, and is fun for kids from age 3 through 103. For more information, people can check out YCT’s website at www.yalechildrenstheater.org.

Tonight’s performance will be a Yale-Only version. Dwight Hall (67 High St.), Common Room.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22

THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

12:30 PM “Healthcare in Shanghai: PregnancyCardiovascular Disease-Regional Health Planning” Join the Public Health Coalition and GLHI for lunch with Cai Yuyang, associate professor of health policy and management at Shanghai JaioTong University School of Public Health. Silliman College (505 College St.), Dining Annex.

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WORLD Chavez’s return stirs successor talk

BY JORGE RUEDA ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — Hugo Chavez’s sudden return to Venezuela after more than two months of cancer treatments in Cuba has fanned speculation that the president could be preparing to relinquish power and make way for a successor and a new election.

The government is insisting that Chavez remains in charge, playing an upbeat jingle on state television Tuesday with the message: “He’s back, he’s back!” But political analysts said he could soon take the oath of office in a delayed swearing-in ceremony as a first step toward a formal resignation, and a transition of power. Taking the oath, however, wouldn’t be required for the country’s congress and Supreme Court to call a new election.

The big question, beyond where the president is, is whether the president is capable of governing.

MARIANA BACALAO Professor of public opinion, Central University of Venezuela Chavez remained silent and out of sight a day after his return was announced on his Twitter account Monday. The government said he was continuing unspecified medical treatments at Caracas’ military hospital.

“The big question, beyond where the president is, is whether the president is capable of governing,” said Mariana Bacalao, a professor of public opinion at the Central University of Venezuela. She said it seems unlikely that Chavez would be able to overcome his illness.

Even the state newspaper Correo del Orinoco referred to the possibility of a new election in its Monday edition. The

top headline, published before Chavez’s announced return, reported on a survey by the pollster Hinterlaces that showed Vice President Nicolas Maduro with a double-digit lead over opposition leader Henrique Capriles if a vote were held.

Chavez hasn’t spoken publicly since before his latest cancer surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11, and critics are questioning whether a leader who has been breathing through a tube and is unable to appear in public is now capable of remaining in office.

“This tension isn’t sustainable for much longer. Now that he’s here, they can’t let another 70 days pass for an image to appear or for him to speak,” Bacalao said. “There has to be a convincing response because people are waiting for an outcome.”

Chavez’s political allies have left open the possibility that the president may finally take the oath of office, a ceremony originally scheduled for last month. But they have given few precise details about his cancer or what sort of “complex and tough” treatment he is undergoing.

Aides and politicians in Chavez’s camp have said he should be given as much time as he needs to recover.

“We can’t demand anything more of Chavez. Now we have to see how we can help more, being more efficient, more productive,” Aragua state Gov. Tareck El Aissami said on state television on Tuesday.

Bolivian President Evo Morales, a friend and ally of Chavez, made a brief visit to Caracas on Tuesday and arrived at the military hospital together with Maduro. Morales left the hospital later without speaking to reporters.

Chavez’s return came less than three days after the government released the first photos of the president in more than two months, showing him in a bed looking bloated and smiling alongside his daughters.

The government has yet to release any images of the president in Caracas. But as soon as his return was announced on Monday, supporters held upbeat street celebrations and set off fireworks.

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The “Culliman Diamond” was discovered in South Africa in 1905. The stone is named for Sir Thomas Cullinan, the owner of the diamond mine.

Diamonds stolen at Brussels airport

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Baggage carts sit on the tarmac of Brussels airport from which about $50 million worth of diamonds were stolen.

BY RAF CASERT ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — When the armored car set off for the Brussels airport carrying $50 million worth of precious stones from Antwerp’s diamond district, eight gunmen knew all about it.

One of the biggest diamond heists in recent memory was about to go down.

The thieves surely knew it would be too risky to make their move in Antwerp, which is the world capital of diamond-cutting, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from the airport. The city’s diamond industry has some 2,000 surveillance cameras, police monitoring and countless identity controls to protect its $200 million in daily trade of rough and polished gems.

“We are just about the safest place in Belgium,” said Antwerp World Diamond Center spokeswoman Caroline De Wolf.

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And the thieves no doubt realized that once Swiss Flight LX789 was airborne Monday night on its way to Zurich, the diamonds tucked in its hold, it would be too late to get their hands on the gems.

But the airport’s 25-kilometer fence and the transfer of the diamonds from the armored car on the tarmac to the hold of the Fokker 100 twin-engine jet — now that held potential.

After weeks of lashing rain, snow, sleet and black ice, Monday evening was finally as good as it gets in late winter in Belgium. Crisp, cold air meant dry roads for a perfect getaway, and winter’s early darkness was a blessing for those needing stealth.

About 20 minutes before the flight’s scheduled 8:05 p.m. departure, the robbers hid in a construction site outside the airport fence. Then they apparently cut through the fence and, in two black cars with blue police lights flashing, drove onto the tarmac,

speeding straight to pier A, where the armored car had just finished transferring the diamonds to the Fokker.

Dressed in dark police clothing and hoods, the thieves whipped out machine guns and stopped the pilots and the transport security crew in their tracks.

The 29 passengers?

“They saw nothing,” Anja Bijnens of the Brussels prosecutor’s office said Tuesday. The thieves “never fired a shot. They never injured anyone.”

With speed and precision, the thieves opened the plane’s hold, picked out 120 parcels and loaded them into the cars.

“Afterward, they made a highspeed getaway,” Bijnens said, estimating the whole operation took five minutes.

By late Tuesday, investigators had found the charred remains of a van most likely used in the heist but little else.

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C O L U M B I A D A I LY S P E C TAT O R

Student reports assault

Engineers show SEAS pride

BY SAMUEL WEINSTOCK ASSOCIATED PRESS A female undergraduate reported being assaulted in the Quincy House courtyard early Monday morning, according to an advisory notice emailed by the Harvard University Police Department to members of the Harvard community.

At 1:35 a.m., the student was grabbed by two males who tried to pull her towards a nearby building, she told police. She fought off the assailants and escaped the courtyard without injury, but police were unable to find the suspects, according to the advisory.

The email stated that HUPD has increased its presence in the area and encouraged anyone with knowledge of the incident to tell HUPD’s criminal investigation division.

The notice also asked University affiliates to be mindful of Harvard’s “urban setting,” to be vigilant day and night and to travel in groups and on well-lit pathways without distraction from phones or earbuds after dark.

HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano declined to provide information about the incident beyond that contained in the advisory.

Quincy House resident Carina R. Fish said that she was surprised to hear about

the reported assault and is concerned about the safety of Quincy courtyard.

She said she was worried in particular because Quincy courtyard has two HARVARD unlocked entrances and is “one of the few courtyards that are open past a certain time.”

It has been six months since HUPD released an advisory alerting the Harvard community about an assault. The most recent advisories came in August, when two separate reports of rape, the first in Harvard Yard and the second near Oxford and Kirkland Streets, came within the span of five days.

Monday’s advisory came only minutes before the house masters and resident dean of Lowell House, which is across the street from Quincy courtyard, emailed the House about two alleged crimes that both took place this weekend. The email detailed the theft of the House banner from Lowell dining hall and the vandalization of a bronze bust that sits in Lowell courtyard between entryways D and E. The statue, which depicts abolitionist poet James Russell Lowell and was on loan from the Harvard Art Museums, was removed from its pedestal and deposited

into a trash can, which apparently tipped over, spilling the statue and garbage onto the ground.

[T]his act was not committed by someone in Lowell House.

DOROTHY A. AUSTIN Master, Lowell House Officials have released no evidence to suggest that the assault in Quincy courtyard and the theft and vandalization in Lowell were related.

“This was not a harmless prank,” wrote Lowell House Masters Dorothy A. Austin and Diana L. Eck and acting Resident Dean Caitlin M. Casey. “This was a crime.”

They added that HUPD is investigating and asked anyone who saw the theft to speak up.

“We are assuming that this act was not committed by someone in Lowell House but by someone outside our community,” the administrators wrote.

“We also assume that a group of people didn’t try to steal a massive piece of bronze without anyone in the house seeing it,” they added.

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No pledging for new members of Pike

BY TYLER ALICEA STAFF WRITER The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, which was expelled from Cornell’s campus in 2010 after a recruitment event sent three students to the hospital, has recruited more than 60 new members since its return in late January.

In January, the national fraternity sent two consultants to Cornell to help “recolonize” the chapter with new members. These consultants will fully train the members of Pi Kappa Alpha — also known as Pike — to recruit new members and run their fraternity, according to Michael Monnette, one of the consultants. The training should be completed by March 11, when the consultants leave Ithaca, he said.

The fraternity met with more than 200 candidates and has been growing at a rate of about five new brothers each day since returning to campus, according to John Paton, the fraternity’s president.

In order to recruit new members, administrators, faculty and student leaders have been asked to recommend candidates who meet the ideals of the fraternity. There is no pledge class this semester because new members are joining at the same time and will enter the fraternity as brothers, Paton said.

“We are not recruiting a founding pledge class or anything of that nature, but are re-establishing a fully functional fraternity on campus,” Monnette said.

The Beta Theta chapter of Pike has been searching for men who show the qualities of scholarship, leadership and athleticism, as well as the ability to “be a gentleman,” according to Paton.

“As long as they’re scholars, leaders, athletes and gentlemen, we plan to have them in the fraternity,” he said.

According to Paton, Pike is currently

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focusing on finishing the recruitment process and is still looking for more “top quality guys.”

“We are hoping to return Pike to being one of the best fraternities on campus

again,” Paton said.

Pike will receive provisional recognition during a probationary period that will conclude in 2015. Although the fraternity will not be officially recognized until 2015, the provisional recognition will give them the privileges associated with full recognition.

Pike brother Kyle Huffstater said he chose to join the fraternity because he missed the formal fraternity rush.

As long as they’re scholars, leaders, athletes and gentlemen, we plan to have them in the fraternity.

JOHN PATON President, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity “I wasn’t able to go to [rush] and kind of regretted it afterward,” Huffstater said.

He said Pike’s lack of a pledging period and its short application process were additional factors that drew him to join the fraternity, as were Pike’s large size and national reputation. According to Pike’s website, the organization has more than 220 chapters across the United States and Canada and 14,000 undergraduate members in total.

“I do think it’ll provide very good

networking [opportunities], but the more important reason I joined was …

I wanted the chance to try it. So far, it’s turned out great, and I’m not regretting it,” Huffstater said.

He said that publicizing the fraternity’s return to campus and what the organization stands for is currently a top priority for members.

Pike brother Eric Lei said he wanted to rush the fraternity because of the “great opportunity to rebuild an organization.”

“The process takes what the organization is about and the principles of what it was founded upon to allow new members to build on the established foundations,” he said.

Paton also said that the new members of the fraternity will be able to shape the future of Pike at Cornell.

“In the next few weeks, we’re going to be talking with ourselves about what we want to create,” Paton said.

Pike will be the first disbanded fraternity to return to campus since President David Skorton’s declaration in Aug. 2011 that “pledging as we know it has to stop.”

Pike is currently based in Willard Straight Hall, but the fraternity will be allowed to return to its former house at 17 South Ave. in fall 2014.

Members of the fraternity said they hope they will be welcomed by the Cornell community as they work to reshape their chapter.

“We want to start off by moving away from the past stereotypes and creating new ones by having a presence on campus and by giving back to the community,” Lei said.

The national fraternity expressed enthusiasm about Pike’s return to Cornell, in a press release.

“Cornell has a proud Greek system, and we believe that this is exactly the kind of place where Pike needs to be.”

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The engineering student councils gave out free food from Thai Market at the Engineering Week opening ceremony Sunday night.

BY SAMANTHA SOKOL AND LILLIAN CHEN STAFF WRITERS This week, students at the School of Engineering and Applied Science are celebrating what makes engineering awesome.

Engineering Week, which is hosted by the SEAS student councils, kicked off Sunday night with an opening ceremony featuring Engineering Student Council President Tim Qin and Engineering Graduate Student Council President David Parker.

Throughout the week, students will tour labs, listen to lectures, attend advising sessions with academic and preprofessional counselors and enjoy some engineer bonding.

This year, building community is the council’s main priority, ESC Vice President of Student Life Sheila Misheni, said.

To do this, Misheni said the council reached out to more student groups than it has in previous years.

The goal was to “create a week where it’s engineering pride, engineering community, also collaborating a lot with other student groups,” Misheni said, including preprofessional and major-specific groups.

Qin said that this year’s theme for the Columbia week, “Celebrate Awesome,” will highlight engineering around the nation.

“We basically have a midterm every other week and the last midterm probably ends the week before finals,” Qin said at the opening ceremony in Lerner Party Space. “At the end of the day, we should realize that we will make a difference in other people’s lives.”

“E-Week is a good thing because it attracts people … so more students can get to know SEAS kids,” Nancy Araceli said.

About 400 students lined up for the opening ceremony on Sunday, but Lerner Party Space is capped at 200 students.

Misheni said that though the dean usually speaks at the opening ceremony, SEAS Interim Dean Donald Goldfarb did not speak this year because planning became too hectic.

“We’re just trying to keep it more student-focused rather than having administration come in,”

Misheni said of the ceremony.

H oweve r, she and Qin both said that former COLUMBIA SEAS Dean Fe n i o s k y Peña-Mora, who resigned in July, was very involved with planning E-Week.

Besides free food events that help bring the community together, Misheni said the council has also planned a large-scale major discovery event called “Passport to SEAS.” “Passport to SEAS” is an event geared toward first-years and sophomores to teach them more about the different majors at SEAS, Misheni said.

“We have lab tours, professors are giving lectures, we have CSA [Center for Student Advising] advisers and also CCE [Center for Career Education] for preprofessional stuff, as well as student groups manning the floor so you can get a student perspective,” she said.

Qin said this is the first time the councils have worked so closely with professors, administrators and student leaders for an E-Week event.

“One of the main challenges students face is choosing their major, having little exposure to courses in their major,” CSA adviser Andrew Pla said. “The goal is to make students aware of what it will be like to pursue their major.”

Though events are geared toward SEAS students, E-Week is open to the entire student body.

“We reach out in ways to bring everyone in,” Qin said, citing examples such as CU Assassins and a laser tag event planned for Saturday night.

This year, the Columbia College Student Council decided to change the CC version of E-Week — College Days — to a weeklong music festival leading up to Bacchanal.

Misheni said that the two councils have different visions of how to build community at Columbia, but that both work. She added that E-Week isn’t a Columbiaspecific event — it is celebrated at schools across the country.

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Men’s squash misses Ivy title

BY ADLON ADAMS STAFF REPORTER The No. 2 Yale men’s squash team (11-3, 5-2 Ivy) lost the fight for the Ivy League title Monday as it fell to the No. 3 Harvard Crimson in Cambridge.

The Bulldogs made the trip to compete against the Crimson (15-2, 6-1 Ivy) in a match that would decide the Ancient Eight Champion. Yale put up a valiant effort against a heavily stacked Harvard team but fell just short in a tight 6–3 outcome.

“We were expecting a tough match in a tough environment,” Eric Caine ’14 said. “That’s exactly what we got, and it’s to be expected — it’s Harvard.”

The first round of matches each took at least four or more games to decide. The No. 9 position was decided first with a 3–1 win for Harvard’s Matt Roberts over Joseph Roberts ’15. The Bulldogs retaliated with a victory at No. 6 by Zachary Leman ’16, who won in five sets. Richard Dodd ’13 brought Nigel Koh to five games at No. 3, but fell in a tough fight.

Entering the second round of matches, the Crimson were up 2–1. The Bulldogs were able to leap ahead with two wins. At No. 5 Sam Fenwick ’16 defeated Harvard’s Tyler Olson in five long games. At No. 8 Charlie Wyatt ’14 broke Jason Michas’s perfect record this season with a 3–2 win. Harvard was able to tie up the match 3–3 with a win at No. 2 over team captain Hywel Robinson ’13 in four games.

“The team played hard and left everything on court,” Dodd

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Five of the nine matches on Monday took all five games to settle, but in the end, the Bulldogs fell to Harvard, 6–3. said. “We couldn’t have asked for more from the guys. Harvard was up for the match too though, and although it was 6–3, we were unlucky not to see some matches go our way.”

Going into the third round of play 3–3, the outcome of the day lay on the No. 1, No. 4 and No. 7 positions. At No. 1, Kenneth Chan ’13 fell first in the only 3–0 loss of the match to Harvard’s nationally ranked No. 1 Ali Faraq.

Faraq has been undefeated so far this season and is favored to win

the College Squash Association Individual Championship.

After Chan fell, the last two matches had to be won by Yale for an overall victory and an Ivy championship. Caine fell in four games to Harvard’s Zeke Scherl at No. 7. Neil Martin ’14 was the last man standing for Yale, and eventually fell in five games. Yale finished the season with a 5–2 record in the Ivy League, with its only losses coming from Princeton and Harvard.

“The guys played their hearts

out,” Robinson said. “There were too many incredible performances to single out anyone in particular. We will have the same strategy going into nationals: Play hard, give everything and good things will happen.”

The Bulldogs will host the CSA team championship this weekend at the Brady Squash Center.

They are expected to play Cornell in the first round.

Contact ADLON ADAMS at adlon.adams@yale.edu .

McCormack ’13 prepares for season

BY FREDERICK FRANK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s lacrosse team is coming off its most successful season in 20 years. The Bulldogs posted an 11–5 record that included a nine-game win streak, an Ivy League Tournament Championship and a trip to the NCAA tournament. The News sat down with captain Michael McCormack ’13, a defenseman from West Islip, N.Y., to discuss his lacrosse experiences and the team’s upcoming season. did you start playing QWhen lacrosse, and what drew you to keep playing?

A

My older brother played and that initially sparked my interest because he would force me to have a catch with him. I officially started playing for my town in third grade and really fell in love with the sport. I also played baseball but then in fifth grade it became too much and I chose to stick with lacrosse.”Q You’re not the biggest player but you chose to play defense where you will be squaring up against attackmen who many times are over six feet tall. How have you developed your game play to tackle that issue?

A

In little league, no one wanted to play defense because everyone wanted to score goals but I played defense with my brother. Being on the shorter end is a disadvantage, but one of the things that I have been able to

be successful with is pushing in transition, being able to pick up ground balls and generally having good stick skills. However, because I was able to have varsity level coaches from a young age, my biggest asset is understanding the game and being able to read what’s happening in between the lines. are from Long Island, QYou which is a hotbed for supplying college lacrosse players. What’s it like playing with or against so many people from your area that you grew up with?

A

It’s definitely neat to see players from my community on the field. I have stayed close friends with a lot of guys I played with in high school, and in games against them it definitely adds a little local rivalry.

you have anything to say QDo about the freshman class?

A

They are a really good class and have already contributed in the weight room. There is a lot of offensive contribution from them but also some added defensive presence from Michael Quinn ’16 and Reilly Naton ’16. They all have good stick skills and are willing to work and learn. I believe a lot of the freshmen are going to play key roles for us this year.

this year getting the new guys into the system? Do you see the team as more defensive this year?

A

I don’t think we will be a more defensive team, but I think it will be one of our strongholds this year. Offensively we have two starting attackmen coming back in Brandon Mangan ’14 and Conrad Oberbeck ’15 as well as Dylan Levings ’14 at the face-off X who will all be key for us. The freshmen have already begun to fill on offense this preseason and I expect them to be huge contributors as the season goes on.

have had a few preseason QYou games. How have those gone and have you learned anything you might not have expected?

A

The snow storm set us back as we couldn’t practice on the turf and that definitely impacted us in the first game. However, we were able to watch film from that game and listen to what our coach had to say and drastically improve in our second game. As long as we keep communicating and being mentally tough we should be prepared for the season.

do you think this team QWhat can accomplish after the bar has been set so high from the previous year?

have returned all of your Obviously our ultimate hope QYou key players on defense, but lost Ais to match and overcome our a few important players on offense.

How have the adjustments been

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placent because of last year’s success. Since day one in the fall, the team adopted the motto of “No shortcuts to the top” to remind ourselves of this and make sure we keep pushing ourselves to do better. We are definitely looking to go farther than we ever have before, and I think we have the talent to do so. has been your greatest QWhat moment on the lacrosse team thus far?

A

Winning the Ivy League tournament in such decisive fashion was really special, especially as no one really expected it. Also, making it into the NCAA tournament for the first time in 20 years was an awesome feeling in knowing how we contributed to the history of the program. However, beating Harvard at home after being down my freshman year was a memory I will always take with me.

past summer you were QThis drafted by the MLL Charlotte Hounds. Is playing professionally something you see yourself doing?

A

It’s not going to be my fulltime profession so getting a career squared away is my first concern. I would definitely be willing to give it a shot but right now I am concentrating on my job interviews and more importantly the upcoming lacrosse season.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

Late Wednesday night, the news broke that Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympian known as “Blade Runner” for his eyecatching prosthetic legs, had “accidentally killed” his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in his home in Pretoria. I read the early tweets before heading to bed and didn’t think much more of it. “What a terrible accident,” I thought, “He’s going to have to live with that for the rest of his life.”

What a difference a day makes. Within a few hours, it was clear that this was not an open-and-shut selfdefense case. While Pistorius’ camp continues to argue that the Paralympic medalist mistook his girlfriend for an intruder in the crime-ridden South African executive capital, prosecutors paint an incredibly suspect picture of Pistorius’ actions. The details are still emerging, but Pistorius allegedly shot his girlfriend four times through a bathroom door, and a bloody cricket bat was found in the house. Pistorius is entitled to his due process, but it is clear that he shot his girlfriend, either intentionally or by accident, and it will tough for the runner to defend himself against the comprehensive allegations.

Pistorius was quite possibly the most popular man in South Africa. He had the perfect story — overcoming incredible physical, mental, and societal odds to compete at the highest level when at birth it seemed unlikely that he would ever walk. He was charming, inspirational and larger-than-life. The images of Pistorius’ sleek blades pounding against the same track as the legs of able-bodied runners as the crowd roared at last summer’s Olympics are indelible. It seemed futuristic. It seemed important.

I don’t mean to exaggerate, but watching Pistorius run in the Olympics seemed like a small step forward for society. For a few moments, Pistorius represented our society’s continuing convergence toward greater acceptance and our awesome power to innovate and use technology for good.

Today’s reality is not as magical. The Onion published an article on Thursday with the headline, “World Now Down to 5 Stories That Are Inspirational.”

As always, there’s a certain element of raw truth in everything that comes out of The Onion.

Why do our heroes continually fall short of our expectations? I struggled with this story the following day because this scenario

is more extreme than anything we’ve seen recently — this isn’t Tiger Woods having multiple affairs or Manti Te’o finding himself in a relationship with a fake girlfriend. This isn’t even comparable to Lance Armstrong taking steroids or players getting arrested for drug possession. Those are examples of falling from grace — of athletes making rash mistakes when overwhelmed with their fame and abnormal lifestyle. In this case, we’re confronted with the idea that Pistorius may very well be a coldblooded murderer.

The images are indelible, but they’re not incorruptible. No matter the result of Pistorius’ trial, we will no longer be able to watch his past races without thinking about the events of last Thursday morning in Pretoria. Any joy, any appreciation of his feats will be met with the cognitive dissonance of knowing his sins.

That hurts all of us, knowing that everything extraordinary these days seems to have a catch.

PISTORIUS IS JUST ANOTHER HERO TO FALL One of my favorite commercials of all time is a Nike advertisement that aired in the U.S. during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. It’s a fast-paced, high-energy stream of clips played over “All These Things That I’ve Done”

by The Killers. I probably only saw it a few times that summer, but it’s stuck with me so much since that I still search for it on YouTube every few months. It cuts between clips of space missions, children, cancer patients, research labs, nature, athletes, cities, art, festivals — a brief 60-second look at the amazing things that are happening in the world today. It builds in speed and intensity before everything drops out, leaving just a rhythmic guitar riff. Who’s on the screen?

A young Oscar Pistorius, sprinting down an unlit track in the middle of the night.

Clearly Nike thought he was the symbol of where the world is going next. After all the things that the world has done, Pistorius represented how we were continuing to move forward. We all thought he was a symbol of progress. Until now.

Contact EVAN FRONDORF at evan.frondorf@yale.edu .

THE CAUSED TURNOVER AVERAGE OF MEN’S LACROSSE CAPTAIN MICHAEL MCCORMACK ’13 LAST SEASON. The senior defenseman finished sixth in the nation last year in caused turnovers per game. McCormack and the Elis will open their season at St. John’s on Saturday.